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Meanings of St John's Night in English

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la nit de sant joan

The night before Midsummer Day.

        la nit de sant joan
        Synonyms
        Examples for "Midsummer Eve"
        Examples for "Midsummer Eve"
        1
        In the early morning of Midsummer Eve, Hazel wandered up the hill-slopes.
        Gone to Earth
        2
        On Midsummer Eve three girls are required to make a dumb cake.
        Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District
        3
        But the favourite time would seem to be Midsummer Eve or Midsummer Day.
        The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
        4
        The Midsummer Eve festival was like nothing Celaena had ever experienced.
        The Assassin’s Blade
        5
        There was mist on Midsummer Eve, mist when we drove into the dawn.
        I capture the castle
        1
        I went to see PanPan's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Peter tells Eva about his ballet score for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
        Radio NZ
        3
        The Midsummer Night's Dream he wrote from his own inner dream world.
        Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
        4
        A Midsummer Night's Dream will tour around the UK next year.
        BBC
        5
        I really disliked the A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
        The Irish Times
        1
        On St John's Eve, the bonfires burn all night.
        Wolf hall
        2
        In many parts of Ireland, bonfires were lit and, indeed, still are on St John's Eve.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The festival runs from June 21st to 29th and so includes St John's Eve on June 23rd, which has been celebrated in Cork for generations.
        The Irish Times
        1
        Britain will hold a referendum on European Union membership on June 23.
        Reuters
        2
        UKFI said it will not sell any more shares before June 23.
        Reuters
        3
        The award ceremony will air live from Los Angeles on June 23.
        Ebony
        4
        Margaret Adkins was killed on June 23, just over a week ago.
        Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
        5
        To Miss Hannah More, June 23.-On her poem of Bishop Bonner's Ghost.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
        Usage of St John's Night in English
        1
        St John's night 1673 in danger of being run through with a sword by a young templer at M. Burges' chamber in the M. Temple.
        Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
        Translations for St John's Night